7:20 AM ET Stephen Strasburg, exit stage left, your run as MLB’s highest-paid pitcher with your $245 million contract was short-lived. Step on up, Gerrit Cole, owner of a new, nine-year, $324 million contract, courtesy of the New York Yankees. Both pitchers shattered the previous record contract for a pitcher, so I thought it would
Month: December 2019
6:08 PM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff An in-form Mayank Agarwal is likely to replace the injured Shikhar Dhawan in the Indian squad for ODI leg of the home series against West Indies which will follow after the ongoing T20I series. It is understood that Dhawan has not yet completely recovered from the freak knee injury he
12:04 AM ET The most straightforward way to consider the Yankees‘ landmark signing of free-agent ace Gerrit Cole is this: New York now has baseball’s best pitcher and the Houston Astros do not. When you consider that the Yankees’ inability to translate regular-season dominance into a pennant over the past three years is largely a
1:51 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — He may have been left in the locker room for the opening Presidents Cup pairings but Australian Cameron Smith did not retreat from his comments about United States team member Patrick Reed. Just an hour before Els and U.S. captain Tiger Woods took to the stage to announce the
1:52 AM ET SAN DIEGO — Gerrit Cole was the top free-agent starter this winter, and was courted by multiple large-market contenders, but I don’t think anyone forecasted a record-setting, nine-year, $324 million deal, the longest deal and the highest average annual value (AAV) ever given to a pitcher. Cole is a clear No. 1
1:11 AM ET The Chicago White Sox have acquired outfielder Nomar Mazara from the Texas Rangers for outfield prospect Steele Walker, the teams announced Tuesday. Mazara, 24, has played four seasons for the Rangers, hitting a career-best .268 in 2019 with 19 home runs and 66 RBIs. The left-handed hitter had 20 homers in each
10:54 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI — Trae Young figured the game was over. Turns out, Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat were just getting started — on one of the craziest stat nights in team history. Duncan Robinson tied a franchise record with 10 3-pointers, Butler and Bam Adebayo each had triple-doubles and the
7:05 AM ET Sam MillerESPN.com Close ESPN baseball columnist/feature writerFormer editor-in-chief of Baseball ProspectusCo-author of “The Only Rule Is It Has To Work” Early this past season, Lance Lynn was wearing his fourth uniform in less than two years, and his pitching was a mess. On May 4, he walked five batters and struck out
12:27 AM ET MELBOURNE, Australia — Not only is U.S. captain Tiger Woods playing in the Presidents Cup on Thursday, he’s in the first match. Woods and Justin Thomas will go against the International team of Marc Leishman and Joaquin Niemann at Royal Melbourne, it was announced. They will tee off at 5:32 p.m. ET
11:00 PM ET It will be a matrimonial milestone for mixed martial arts. Mark De La Rosa will fight Raulian Paiva at UFC Rio Rancho on Feb. 15 in New Mexico, sources told ESPN on Tuesday. It’ll be a flyweight bout, but it will represent more than that. Montana De La Rosa, Mark’s wife, is